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The story of Muddy Waters is the archetypal path of the blues. McKinley Morganfield was born in Mississippi in 1913 and picked cotton on a Mississippi Delta plantation. He moved north to Chicago, and led a band that transformed the sound of the deep rural blues for urban audiences, making music full of pain and pride, menace and lust.

July 30, 2002artsReview

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Among the epic generation that forged Chicago's electric blues a half-century ago, Muddy Waters stands as a giant. Others share his virility and sensitivity, but Waters's blues have an elegant grace, an Ellingtonian twinkle, that sets his music apart from, if not above, that of his peers.

June 23, 2002artsReview

Cultural Desk

Muddy Waters, the pioneer of electric blues, grew up near this small, quiet Mississippi Delta town, on Stovall's Plantation, leaving in May 1943 after the plantation overseer refused his request for a raise from 22 1/2 cents to 25 cents an hour.

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It is astounding, the author writes, how little risk the markets are pricing into public companies that have poured shareholder money into emerging markets over the last several years through acquisitions and start-up projects.

CAN'T BE SATISFIED The Life and Times of Muddy Waters By Robert Gordon Illustrated. 408 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $22.95. The story of Muddy Waters is the archetypal path of the blues. McKinley Morganfield was born in Mississippi in...

June 23, 2002, Sunday

LEAD: Muddy Waters, the pioneer of electric blues, grew up near this small, quiet Mississippi Delta town, on Stovall's Plantation, leaving in May 1943 after the plantation overseer refused his request for a raise from 22 1/2 cents to 25 cents an...